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mile in length. It abounds in the various 

 fpecies of the orange tribe — oranges, (had- 

 docks, limes, lemons, and forbidden fruit 

 hanging in the moft inviting profufion. The 

 banana, the plantain, and divers other fruits 

 are likewafe plenteoufly intermixed. It is 

 the employment of tv^^o negroes conftanly to 

 attend the orchard and protect the fruit. 

 The oranges we moft enjoyed, and which 

 •were efteemed the beft in the colony, were 

 from a tree nearly a hundred years old, 

 and the largeft upon the ifland. They were 

 fmall, but of moft exquifite flavor, I have 

 formerly enjoyed oranges even in England, 

 and have always held them a fine fruit ; 

 but after tafting the incomparable produce of 

 the venerable centurian branch, I fear thofe to 

 be met with in Britain will be infipid indeed.— 

 If you don't feel a v\^ifh for tropical thirft, and 

 fome oranges from the Colonel's old tree, you 

 ought never to know the true flavor of 

 fruit ! 



Having made a moft delicious repaft in 

 the fweet ihaded valley, we again mount- 

 ed our horfes, and, after a fhort ride, arrived 



